Global biodiversity targets won’t be met by 2020, scientists say

World leaders failing in their pledge to stop wildlife decline, save habitats and create marine reserves

How to keep your brain healthy

Could sudoku, drugs and a Mediterranean diet help keep our brains fit? What can the latest neuroscience research tell us?

Women chefs can handle the heat in the kitchen but have no appetite for sexism

Blaming a lack of female chefs on archaic assumptions about their capabilities is as weak as perpetuating the excuses that allow certain chefs to behave so badly

Forests are emerging out from the shadow of fossil fuels in climate debate

Letting people living in forests become nature’s guardian is bringing both development and saving ecosystems

In the Age of Extinction, which species can we least afford to lose?

Climate change and human intervention are accelerating the planet’s loss of biodiversity. So should we try to preserve ‘useful’ bees before ‘cuddly’ tigers?

Green news roundup: wildlife decline, solar in India and 35,000 walrus

The week’s top environment news stories and green events

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